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Studio Arts is a school of fine art located in Los Angeles that offers training for studio artists in the entertainment industry. With a faculty of experienced production artists, state-of-the-art equipment, and a world-class curriculum, Studio Arts aims to enhance the skills of professionals and provide them with the latest technology and techniques.

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Cinema 4D - 101

Studio Arts @ Virtual Classroom

This is the first class in the Cinema 4D series that will introduce you to the world of 3D modeling and basic animation. Cinema 4D is a premiere 3D application that fits seamlessly into any broadcast and film animation pipeline. Upon completion of this course the student will be able to build 3d objects using a variety of modeling techniques as well as the basic tools for animation, the use of deformations and the introduction to other features...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$750

9 sessions

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Painting with Photoshop

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Painting With Photoshop is a project-based class intended to provide students with real world approaches for creating Photoshop paintings in a professional environment. Topics covered will include:  Converting a scanned layout drawing into a line only layer Structuring the painting in a logical "back to front" manner  Using the keyboard commands and hot keys to streamline workflow  Building custom brushes and organizing them...

(3) Intermediate 18 and older
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$750

2 sessions

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Python 101

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

This beginning animation scripting class helps artists, especially those interested in a Technical Director position, to become more knowledgeable of Python, which is rapidly replacing all other forms of CG scripting in the world of 3D animation. Scripting is an essential tool that uses the computer’s computational power to assist in an animation production’s workflow. This class will take the beginner through a thorough introduction to MEL...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$1,500

11 sessions

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Corel Painter 101

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Corel Painter offers robust paint brushes and textures unlike those found in any other software. Now you can learn to use this powerful program for your motion picture or television animation productions! This introductory Corel Painter class is intended to get artists started in the exciting and rewarding work of painting on the computer. Classroom instruction is given on Macintoshes using Wacom tablets. Prerequisite: None, but basic knowledge...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$1,500

10 sessions

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Rigging

Studio Arts

The class will introduce the student to the basic concepts of modern character rigging, including easy-to- use controls for the resulting rig. Various techniques will be discussed, as well when to best apply them, and how to use the available tools in CG. This advanced class will cover the principles of bone placement, weighting, constraints and targets for bipedal and quadrupedal models and advanced techniques for the rigging of animatable facial...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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Digital Design with Photoshop

Studio Arts

This class will focus on getting "analog" fine artists started working in a digital way. Exceptional consideration will be made for showing students how to paint digitally with an emphasis on using Photoshop and occasionally Corel Painter to effect a design from sketch to a final, digitally rendered product.  The digital design world can be very challenging for many concept designers, illustrators, animation artists, set designers, costume...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Flash 101

Studio Arts

This class will introduce the artist to the Flash interface, the use of its graphics engine, basic animation concepts, drawing and scanning, camera moves, special effects, audio and more. Flash animation is now taking the broadcast industry by storm with its innovative technology that keeps the costs of producing high-quality shows at a minimum. Already well-established as a web animation tool, Flash shows are now being produced by major Hollywood...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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RAW Photography & Photoshop

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Do you need to make better photographs? With your camera and Photoshop's help, this class will inform and delight you with industry tips and techniques for getting the most out of any camera by first using the proper camera controls and then applying Photoshop's incredibly easy tools. We'll begin with the basics of how and why certain camera choices are preferable in certain situations: tackling the hows and whys of exposure and what those numbers...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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$1,500

5 sessions

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Hard Surface Modeling (Maya)

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This beginning-to-intermediate class introduces digital 3D using Maya, Autodesk's industry-standard modeling, sculpting, texturing, rendering, and animation tool. Students should have a basic understanding of Maya, such as completion of Maya 101 or equivalent experience. By the end of this course, students should feel comfortable with the Maya interface and work flow for 3D modeling for design, illustration, or simple animation. Each week will teach...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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Textures

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By joining this class, students will have an overview of the production process used to create textures and materials for animation and VFX. Students will learn to create photo-realistic and stylized textures using proper workflows in Maya and Photoshop with an introduction to 3D painting software like Mudbox or ZBrush. Textures breathe life into your models! The visual appearance of things is given by their surfaces. How we see an object is, simplified...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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Rapid Prototyping

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Learn to create finely detailed, vivid models and prototypes. Rapid Protoyping is taking the entertainment industry by storm! In the entertainment industry, details make a world of difference. To bring their creations to life, animators, prop builders and other entertainment industry professionals rely on finely detailed, vivid models and prototypes. Model building is a notoriously labor-intensive and slow process, particularly when the models...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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Illustrator Refresher

Studio Arts

If you are an occasional user of Adobe Illustrator, or if you have been working with an older version of the program and need to get up-to-speed on the latest version, this course is for you. Please be aware that this is NOT an introduction to Illustrator, for that refer to Illustrator 1. Using hands-on, graphic design-oriented projects, the class digs deeply into the fundamentals of Illustrator by using the Pen and the Brush Tools, Polygons,...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Final Cut Pro (X) 101

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

This introductory course covers the basic interface, settings and overall editing methodology of Final Cut Pro X, Apple's affordable, best-selling nonlinear editing software with precise tools that work with virtually any digital video format, from DV/HDV to multiple streams of 4K ProRes at full resolution. Final Cut Pro X features 64-bit architecture which maximizes interface performance & speed for rendered effects and resolution independence...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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$1,500

4 sessions

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Compositing & VFX 101

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Learn compositing as it was meant to be learned. This class will be a thorough introduction to learning the fundamental principles of visual effects compositing. Then these principles will be applied to a node-based compositing system (like The Foundry's Nuke). This class covers the essential aspects of compositing that will help you understand what's going on under the hood in any image-based application (Photoshop, After Effects, Maya etc.) and...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$1,500

8 sessions

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​Compositing & VFX 101

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Learn compositing as it was meant to be learned! This class will be a thorough introduction to learning the fundamental principles of visual effects compositing. Then these principles will be applied to a node-based compositing system (like The Foundry's Nuke or BlackMagic Design's Fusion). This class covers the essential aspects of compositing that will help you understand what's going on under the hood in any image-based application (Photoshop,...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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$1,500

8 sessions

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Intro to Digital Storyboarding

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Digital storyboarding is quickly becoming the accepted (and expected) way for storyboard artists to create, deliver files and to store their boards for use on productions ranging from feature films to TV animation. This class will focus on getting “analog” illustrators and storyboard artists started in creating their boards in a digital way. Adobe Photoshop will be the main software package utilized from script to finished project, but various...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$1,500

9 sessions

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Game Design 101

Studio Arts @ 570 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles, CA

Learn the principles and basics of video game development using Unity. This overview class will help you understand game development by going through the basics of game design, graphics, programming and most importantly problem solving. The class begins with a very basic game level design provided by the instructor that you will be walked through step-by-step. Once you understand the level design you will then use that knowledge to go into Unity...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$1,500

9 sessions

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Revit Fundamentals

Studio Arts @ 1426 Flower St, Glendale, CA

Autodesk REVIT is a parametric modeling software program that not only will allow you to design a building, but also study it three-dimensionally, cut sections, project elevations, perform structural and acoustical studies, check for mechanical and electrical interferences, attach specification information to every object in the drawing, create finish, door and window schedules, and detail, all in a single, unified database. Building Information...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$1,200

4 sessions

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Intro to Clip Studio

Studio Arts @ 1426 Flower St, Glendale, CA

So you have a great idea for a comic book, graphic novel or manga? Intro to Clip Studio Paint is where you begin. Clip Studio Paint, previously known as Manga Studio, is an industry-leading software for creating Manga, but has since reached far beyond and is now used by many western artists, including renowned comic book artists like Dave Gibbons of "Watchmen" fame. It combines features of more traditional creative applications like Photoshop and...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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$750

4 sessions

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Toy Design

Studio Arts @ 1426 Flower St, Glendale, CA

The class will cover concept development and illustration for sculptural products using Photoshop to create orthographics and specs for manufacturing.  Ideally, each student will come up with a concept for sculptural design for manufacturing, and have a submission ready blueprint ready to submit to factory for production. Most of the time will be spent in Photoshop. Students will see how to develop successful product lines for specific target...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$750

2 sessions

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